Tennis Booker Case Study
Role: Designer and Full Stack Development
Timeline: March - March 2026
Overview
Tennis Booker is a court booking and session management app built for tennis clubs. The problem it solves is unglamorous: most clubs still handle reservations over the phone, through a shared spreadsheet, or with some off-the-shelf tool that was designed for something else entirely.
I designed and built the full product. Members can see available courts, book a slot, and manage their sessions without involving anyone at the club. The club side gets visibility into what's booked, who's coming, and when. It's built around how tennis facilities actually operate rather than how a generic booking platform assumes they do.
Problem
Most tennis clubs still book courts over the phone or through a shared spreadsheet. It works well enough until it doesn't - a double booking, a staff member out, nobody quite sure what's actually reserved for the afternoon.
Generic booking tools don't solve this well. The ones that exist were built for gyms or hotels, not for a sport with multiple court surfaces, member tiers, guest policies, and coaches running recurring sessions on fixed schedules. Clubs either make do with something that half-fits or go back to the spreadsheet.
Solution
I designed and built Tennis Booker. The member side is simple by design: open the app, see which courts are free, and book one. No waiting on confirmation, no calling the club, no figuring out which staff member handles reservations.
The admin side is more involved. Club managers get a full schedule view, booking history per member, and enough visibility to catch conflicts before they happen. The goal was to make it so the person running the club doesn't have to spend their morning sorting out who reserved what. That's a low bar, but a lot of clubs are still clearing it manually.
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